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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 18, 10
Edgar Wallace: Amazing Spirit Claims TIFFINS Jimmy's
Novelist Speaks
-Says "I'll
N°
By Maurice Barbanell
from the "Other World"
Break
Down
Every
Swaffer had told him which inspired learn, and Red the burned paragraphs!
help him.
The dead woman sented in the
chair spoke to Edgar Wallace again.
brother-in-law were silly. Then she vanished.
Barrier"
Cloud promised to
"I will bring him through," he Edgar Wallace persisted. He sent messages through other mediums. Then a few days later, when I was
plot devised by the ingenious mind of She told him that his attacks on her said, "because he wants to speak." Edgar Wallace, that master - craftsman of thrilling fiction, can compare with the true story of his dramatic return from beyond the grave.
Edgar Wallace, an unconscious medium during his lifetime, has come back and given a graphic de- scription of his life in the Other World.
Still possessing his great qualities of reporting and his sense of news, he has told in his own words exactly what happened to him from the moment he died.
Wallace tried to puzzle it all out. on him by this visitation from the
So deep was the impression
made
dead that he ended his article with) these words: "I shall no longer sneer at spirits." And he never did.
Broke the Barriers
nt
scance trying to get some spirli photographs, the medium was con-
trolled,
The spirit guldo sald that Edgar Wallace was with him and was going to try to give a plo- ture of himself, if we would arrange a
a special sitting a few days later.
So that there should be no argu- ments about it I devised some test conditions. I took down with me
Not long after that, Edgar him-; self passed on at Hollywood just an he was beginning to carve out a new enreer in the world of fims,
But the restless energy which two Press photographers. I asked made him
them to buy the plates at any shop! journalist, reporter, n novelist and dramatist could not be they liked. stilled
I told them to examine the camera even by death, He broke
the through
barriers, largely
the slides to lond the plates of and He has spoken at several seances-and sent a spirit photo- which man
Ignorance
and supersiltion, with themselves and to mark them.
has surrounded death
Perfect Picture graph of himself.
and proved his own survival. And the evidence he Have Cine dramatk form.
Confronted with the scepticism of his own secretary, who threw doubts on the accounts of Edgar's return, Wallace sent him a message on a new dictaphone cylinder.
Wallace's Remarkable Gift
Then, Edgar Wallace's wife has put on record her husband's ability to practise what is called psychometry-holding objects and obtaining from them impressions about their owners.
Once he caught sight of a ring she was wearing and asked to see it. Holding it in his hand, be closed his eyes.
"A woman gave you that ring," he had recently been panelled in pickled said, "und luter she died in great.
pain."
WRA
dumb-
Mrs. Wallner founded. It was quite true.
She saw him du thì khul of thing)
After his passing there arrived in my office a long monuscript and a letter from a South Wales woman of Ittle education.
In her letter she said that she had received in automatic writing this long manuscript which purported to have come from Etgar Wallace.
گرده
He had called it "The Passing Over of Edgar Wallace," and it
detailed description what had happened to him from 1ltr time he died.
WLE
The automalle writing began with these words: "I dedicate this book Hut into Dis Pyjamas and
to Hannen Swaffer so that he may de esti-MOWI IH! trade almseltell the world through It." |comfortable First the one of the
panelu eractted noisily.
This
remanded fatura
f
a story on many occasions. Given an object | Swaffer had told him about psychic] to hold in his hand, he could always raps. To Wallace's fertile mind the tell its associatiuns areurately.
crack suggested some new ideas for pulling Swaffer's leg.
Meeting with Spirit
Not many people know that Edgar
was also clairvoyant,
L
Here is
Ant
He sat at his writing wrote three paragraphs. own description of what happened:
The st two of them
were
Wallace Speaks
As it was dedicated to Swaffer, shinwed him the script. He read it.
"I do not know whether Edgar wrole il” he said. "But It is cer- tainly a description of the afterlife as written by a trained reporter."
Here was B
quamtury. How could rove its authenticity,
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The medium was not allowed to Indle
any part of Involved in the taking of the phola-|
He just stood in the room. Kruplis.
At the end of the scance the pro- photographers signed ย fessional
which they declared statement in they were quite satisfied there could have been no substitution of the plates--the only way by which trickery could have happened.
Well, Edgar Wallace gave his spirit photograph. It was a per- feet pleture and, as he him- self declared, it was unlike any in existence.
It was Wallace's answer to those
denied that he was still active! whu after death
been
No copy of this spirit photograph has ever
found by relatives, friends, or photographic agencies. If nyhexly says it is a fake, i chot lenge them to produce the picture from which it was copied.
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Jeaneth
MACDONALD NELSON EDDY The Girl
Then a few weeks later Edgar Wallace spoke in the direct volce.
"I gave you that script," he said. ant for my photograph, This I did will sound extras Wutkace speaking, whether you determined
was like it or not
it is damnably you. whether he had written it.
to ask Edgar Wallace hard to be disbelieved when you are
trying your utmost to make them) At that time WOR attending understand series of seances In The home of Estelle Roberts, the famous incdium. At those sittings the dead returned and spoke in what we call the directe voice-that
they utlige the
As a young man he was a private fummusing Jobs uk my friend. the ordlaary tu many of In the Royal Army Medical Corps, tated was not amusing, and de- He had been on duty all night with ended to cross it out, when surebody a patient who died at about six in said: "I think it is very silly, and you the morning.
ought to be ashamed of yourself.
The medical offleer was going on leave that afternoon, so it was de- elded to hold the post-mortem im- mediately after breakfast.
It
Without any respite, and after t sicepless night, they made their exuniantion. Wire
was com- pleted Edgar Wallace went back to the barrack room where he slept.
It was deserted except, to his surprise, for a woman who nut on one of the beds.
She was a big, unattractive woman, who filed at him as he entered and said: "Our Tom has put you out this morning."
Edgar Wallace was so staggered that he didn't reply. In a minute she was gone.
AL the man's funeral ExXxgar Wallace spoke to the brother, des- cribed the woman he had seen in the barrack room, and asked if he knew her.
The brother was amazed. "That couldn't have been Alma. She has been dead five or six years "
Yet the woman's description absolutely Btted. She WAN 20 years older than the dead man, was tis stepsister and had brought him up. In spite
this expertence Wallace was not a Spiritualist, but he put on record psychic happen- ing which he described is one of his most extraordinary experiencea,
Voice in the Study
At that time he was editing n Sunday
newspaper. He had been poking fun n! Spiritualism and written what he called "amusing Jabs" at his great friend, Hannen Swaffer, the well-known journalist and famous Spirituallst.
Edgar Wallace had Bone to hig country house at Bourne End after a very heavy week, and had ranged to sleep in his study, which
ar
Wallace looked up. There was nobody in the room. The tele- phone receiver was on its sup- port. He could not solve the mystery of the voice.
psychic power of the medium
He took up his pen again and went fashion a replica of their earthly On from where he hat left off. He voices, which are intensifed through was just patting a diagonal line a trumpet. neross the unsatisfactory paragraph when
"I have come though again.. Whether the world likes or not, I going to come through. They lough and they can scoff, but I I will break coming back down every barrier."
is se again the velee said: " seance was Red Cloud, the medium's turn,
the
Then right at
end he said: Tell Bob Curtis not to be a fool." That was his reply to his secretary, The presiding spirit genius of this who und disbelieved in his spirit re- And Wallace promised that he guide. You will read more of Hed would give Curtis something to think Cloud in my future articles, but let about, room, distinct from the medium.
me say that his personality is quite
What
is ally?" he asked. There no reply. Edgar went into his wife's chatted for a few moments, then returned to his study.
He had left the sheet of copy papet on the centre of his writing-pad, and on the top of that he had put his watch and chain.
But
amazement the paper was gone. The watch and chain lay on the writing table by the side of the pad!
to
Is a teacher of high pur- pose, a spirit who says he has İlved for more than 2,000 years and who has returned to ald humanity by reviving those spiritual truths
known in
Bibliest days.
I have
Then at another seance Red Cloud give a remarkable and unexpected spirit test. He volunteered the name, and address of the South Wales medium who had received the auto- matic script. Her name and addressi were a closely-guarded secret known only to two people in my offer!
Dictaphone Shock
"Red Cloud," said at one of his seibres. "I am in a difeulty and He looked round the room, turned would like your assistance.
A few weeks later Bob Curtis had to the fire-why he did not know manuscript said to have been an astonishing story to tell. For 15 and on top of it were the black received in automatie writing from embers of a sheet of paper.
Edgar Wallace. Did he write 17" There was no wind that could have! That was all I asked. I did blown it there, and certainly none give the name of the woman. that could have blown his watch "Wallace Wrote It"
and chain from the centre of the pad to the side of it.
Woman in Room
He said nothing, and went to bed. When he awoke Edgar Wallace had another surprise.
Seated in the chair in he corner of his study he saw a
Slic woman
WILA scalco bult upright, with hands folded an her knees,
On one of her fingers he saw a gold ring.
not
"I do not know", said Red Cloud, "but I will find Qut and tell you, Do nothing until you hear from me." to me:
At the next seance Red Cloud sald have
"I have made inquiries. I spoken to Edgar Wallace. He said he wrote it."
That was good enough for me. I had never known Red Cloud to
be wrong in any of his facts.
rars he had been Wallace's secre- tary. When Edgar passed on he went to assist Sydney Horler, the well-known writer of thrillers.
Horler had sent him some dieta- phone records of his next novel to iranserite.
He put one on, and, as Curtis sald, "was startled almost out of my sent to hear the unmistak able voice of Edgar Wallace coming through.""
to
The voice suid: "I use tils dictate my books-my stories.
"How did the voice of Edgar Wallace get on to the dietaphone?
They
tried to
solve this mystery.
I published the manuscript. "My They thought that possibly Wallace! Life After Death-By Edgar Wal-had once used this record and that lace, She spoke quickly, giving him no sensation. It was criticised by many repolished,
called it. It created
had been Imperfectly shaved and chance of getting in a word. never met her before, nor had he attacked by Bob Curtis, his secretary for Horler's voice would have been He had of his friends and relations. It was That explanation would not nt, seen her portrait.
Yet he knew who she was the they didn't!
But I was unmoved. I knew-and superimposed on Wallace's, and the dend sister-in-law
two would have been blurred. As it Hunnen Swaffer! And it was a psychic ex was mastering the technique of spirit Horler's voice coming after Wallace's During this time Edgar Wallace was, they were quite distinct. pertence concerning this relative that communication, for even he had to voice.
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The mysterious record was taken to the Dietaphone offices in Kings- way, and the manager played the record.
Quite clearly he heard the voles of Wallace say: "I uso him lo dlcate my books--my stories." Then the book changed to deeper and clearer tones the voice of Horler. Bob Curtis was quite poal-; tive that the arst was Edgar Wallace's voice,
Promised Fulfilled
The record was examined under a strong magnifying glass. The ex- pert found that there was no break between the point where the first volee broke off and the second volce started.
"It is 100 to 1 against. two people being able to speak on the same record without show- ing a break where the needle records on the wax," said the manager.
In order to discount any theory or Incomplete shaving, the manager of tho Dictaphone company partly shaved a used record and then showed the result.
Where the shaving left off there was a slight but distinct ridge. The mystery record had no such ridgel
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